Principal's Weekly Report

Principal's Update

Hello Stone Magnet Middle School Families, Students, and Staff,

Welcome to Week 7! We’re excited to continue the momentum as we move through the semester together.

🏀 Basketball Highlights This Week
We have two exciting games coming up:

Tuesday – Home game against Johnson Middle School
Thursday – Away game at Central Middle School

Come out and support our teams as they showcase their hard work and school spirit!

🎤 Student Voice Committee Shoutout
A huge thank you to the students who participated in our Student Voice Committee! Your insights and ideas during our discussion about current school happenings were thoughtful and impactful. We’re proud of your leadership and commitment to making Stone Magnet even better.

Let’s make it a great week!

Go Gophers

Lauren Feronti Williams

Principal

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Basketball and Cheer/Dance practices have begun. Up next... GAMES starting September 9th!!! Email barrett.marissa@brevardschools.org for cheer questions, muniz.christopher@brevardschools.org for boys basketball and saunders.rahshon@brevardschools.org for girls basketball.

Starting the 2025-2026 school year, all K-8 schools are personal electronics free per state statue. Personal electronics include cellphones, headphones, tablets, etc. As Principal of Stone Middle School an electronic free campus is important to me. Cellphone and other electronics may be silenced in backpacks to not distract the learning. Students must secure all electronic devices in backpacks before coming on campus and may use their phones after the dismissal bell. This past summer, I read "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt and would like to share information from this book regarding teen use of electronics.

"This is why I have chosen the term 'play-based childhood' as a central term in this book, to be contrasted with a 'phone-based childhood.' A play-based childhood is one in which kids spend the majority of their free time playing with friends in real life... you can see the problem when some adolescents start spending the majority of their waking hours on their phones sitting alone watching YouTube videos on auto-play or scrolling bottomless feeds on Instagram, TikTok and other apps. These interactions generally have contrasting features of the virtual work: disembodied, asynchronous, one-to-many, and done either alone or in virtual groups that are easy to join and easy to leave." p53-54

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Starting this year, two automated calls will be scheduled to families regarding students' attendance. A morning call between 11:00 am and 11:15 am will take place to alert families of an absence in the morning to help verify a student arrived to school. An additional call will be generated between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm to share with families a student's overall attendance for the day. Please remember attendance is crucial for a student's academic success.

Stone Magnet Middle School will adhere to the School Board Rules of Brevard County as cited in the Secondary Student Parent Handbook.

These are the portions most frequently referred to by parents, students, and school personnel.

The educational program offered by this District is predicated upon the presence of the student and requires continuity of instruction and classroom participation. Attendance shall be required of all students enrolled in the school during the days and hours that the school is in session.

School attendance is the responsibility of parents/legal guardians and students.

A student who is absent from class with an unexcused absence may need to complete supplemental learning opportunities.
Excused absences may include medical appointment of the student, pregnancy related issues, court dates, religious holidays, illness with medical documentation and chronic and extended illness, insurmountable conditions, death in immediate family, and appointments for a therapy service provided by a licensed health professional.
For excused absences, the student shall have a reasonable amount of time, up to ten (10) school days, to complete make-up work. Principals or designee may grant extensions to the make-up time limit for extenuating circumstances.